By: Raymond (Senate Sponsor - Springer) H.B. No. 3526
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
  May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
  Government; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 3; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the application of a municipal building code to the
  construction of a solar pergola.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 214, Local Government
  Code, is amended by adding Section 214.221 to read as follows:
         Sec. 214.221.  REGULATION OF SOLAR PERGOLAS. A municipality
  may not apply a municipal building code to the construction of a
  solar pergola. 
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the construction of a solar pergola on or after the effective
  date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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